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A long period of peace and stable relations between the world’s most powerful nations is coming to an end. Major wars have broken out in Europe and the Middle East, tensions are rising in East Asia, world leaders have spoken publicly about the possibility of a Third World War and intelligence agencies have never seen the world in a more dangerous and precarious state. Making use of Rachman’s unique, unparalleled access to leaders in political and intelligence spheres around the globe and full of extremely well-informed and insightful analysis, ‘War is Interested in You’ explores how we got to this point in global affairs and, crucially, what happens next – in this case, the increasing risk of global conflict.
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It has never been more important to understand the rich and fascinating story of the European continent. As the old global order crumbles under the double shock of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, everyone is wondering whether Europe can step into the breach. But what is this Europe? Drawing on a lifetime of studying, travelling in and writing about Europe, Timothy Garton Ash tells the continent’s story in a hundred pages. Brilliantly readable, witty, accessible yet profound,’ Europe in 7 1/2 Chapters’ takes you on an exhilarating journey through geography, history and culture – from wars and revolutions to food and football – to show how Europe came to be as it is today: more united than ever, and more divided. Can it still flourish in this dangerous new world and even shape it for the better?
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For nearly a decade, diplomats, spies, and soldiers around the world have reported sudden, devastating neurological injuries – symptoms eerily consistent with exposure to a directed energy weapon. Victims were told their illnesses were ‘psychosomatic’. Government agencies dismissed the evidence. And the CIA insisted no adversary was behind it. In this groundbreaking exposé, 60 Minutes producers Michael Rey and Oriana Zill de Granados reveal the hidden history of the so-called Havana Syndrome: from early attacks in Cuba and China, to the spread across global hotspots from Tbilisi to Vienna, to a mounting trail of evidence pointing to an elite Russian ‘kill’ unit as the culprit. Drawing on more than nine years of reporting, secret medical records, whistleblower testimony, and intelligence reports, they expose not only the technology behind the attacks but the U.S. government’s effort to downplay and deny them.
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A bold new account of Europe’s plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia. Drawing on unpublished archives and interviews with over 150 leading figures, David Marsh investigates Europe’s present crisis, from the march of populism, Franco-German malaise, and the breakdown of relations with Putin’s Russia. Fault lines are emerging in the monetary union, while the fight against climate change has impacted growth. Facing its gravest test since WWII, Europe must find fresh reserves of resilience – and seek out renewed international partnerships to ensure success.
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Unreliable Boyfriend is a book that only Chrystia Freeland could write – about a globe-trotting journalist who covered oligarchs and then became a political leader; what she learned about power, international relations, and global trade from her years in government; and how the United States can be seen in revelatory ways through the eyes of a Canadian who had to deal with American chaos.
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Beneath the oceans, a war is quietly unfolding – a battle over the pipelines and digital cables that carry the oil, gas and data modern life depends on. These invisible networks, stretching across the globe, are vital, and increasingly under threat. We must pay attention, before it’s too late. In ‘The Undersea War,’ award-winning journalist Elisabeth Braw exposes the frontlines of this hidden conflict. Minute by minute, hour by hour, she recounts incidents with nail-biting suspense: mysterious damage to undersea cables, shadowy ships loitering near pipelines and the growing realization that these vital arteries may be deliberately targeted.
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Beneath the oceans, a war is quietly unfolding – a battle over the pipelines and digital cables that carry the oil, gas and data modern life depends on. These invisible networks, stretching across the globe, are vital, and increasingly under threat. We must pay attention, before it’s too late. In ‘The Undersea War,’ award-winning journalist Elisabeth Braw exposes the frontlines of this hidden conflict. Minute by minute, hour by hour, she recounts incidents with nail-biting suspense: mysterious damage to undersea cables, shadowy ships loitering near pipelines and the growing realization that these vital arteries may be deliberately targeted.
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Are America and China destined for war?
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Almost everywhere we turn these days, there’s talk of a West in decline. Our jobs, our values, our past are all under attack, in the face of which we have become immersed in self-loathing, gone weak at the knees: the West needs to be Made Great Again. We know where this toxic narrative comes from: the nationalist, nativist Right. And now it’s gone mainstream. The thing is, the West is in decline, self-evidently so. But the truth is that it’s not migrants or Muslims or a woke mob which has brought the West to the edge of catastrophe. It’s good, old-fashioned hubris. In this book, Owen Jones explores how, amid the triumphalist sugar rush that came with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West came to believe that its rule, its economic order, its moral values, would endure for ever – and how, over a quarter-century, this brittle self-mythologising narrative collapsed in on itself.
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‘Propulsive … A rousing tribute to the beauty and importance of old-fashioned journalism, a taut thriller of high stakes ‘hostage diplomacy,’ and a poignant meditation on the human struggle between hope and apathy under authoritarian rule’ PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, bestselling author of London Falling
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1913, the Arctic circle. Charismatic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson is obsessed with a frozen speck of land in the Siberian Arctic: Wrangel Island. Believing that whoever possesses it would control the future – air routes, resources, even the balance of power in the northern hemisphere, he takes an impossible gamble. Dispatching a small, ill-equipped venture to stake a frozen colony in Britain’s name, it is a triumph of brilliance, ego and breathtaking hubris. What follows is a catastrophe of starvation, madness, and geopolitical risk. As winter seals the island in ice, relief ships fail to arrive and tensions among the colonists spiral toward despair. While diplomats spar and warships steam north, the settlers are left to endure scurvy, polar bears, and the terror of abandonment. At the centre of it all stands one unlikely survivor – a young Inuit seamstress who can outlast them all.
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When Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, he ended the post-1945 Pax Americana which had underwritten eighty years of global stability and opportunity since World War II. After military interventions in Iran and Venezuela, and with Greenland on the cards, the United States seems to be returning to a former imperial age, dominated by itself, Russia and China. With its unparalleled military capabilities and its status as an economic guarantor to almost two thirds of the planet, this seems the likeliest outcome. But is the old world likely to reemerge from the shadows? Or can smaller states like Taiwan, Switzerland and Singapore provide a blueprint for how we can chart a bolder, more promising future? From the former Director of Chatham House, ‘After America’ is an original and surprising analysis of the post-America order – and a bold vision for the future of geopolitics.
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The chilling and revelatory story of how Russia’s confrontation with the West went global
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We’re living in an age of deep political anger and frustration. Where did it come from, and how do we get out? Anthony Scaramucci’s electrifying answer – rooted in history, business, and first-hand experience – reveals the true origins of America’s current crisis, charting how both political parties made a series of catastrophic decisions that dismantled a post-war period of unprecedented stability and prosperity. Each decision deepened inequality, corroded trust, and fuelled the anger that empowered Donald Trump’s rise and his assault on democracy. The story Scaramucci tells is ‘money-point-of-view history’: it gallops from Wall St to Main St, from the boardroom to the Situation Room.
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Since his re-election as US president, Donald Trump has made good on things he only dreamed of accomplishing in his first term. In six short months he had smashed constitutional constraints, trampled on free speech, suborned the judiciary, demonised the media and crushed protests on the streets. He secured the backing of America’s oligarchs and inflated his personal wealth. US foreign policy is no longer based on values but on greed, while at home his administration has intervened in the almost every area of people’s daily lives, bringing the National Guard into America’s cities. According to Martin Sixsmith, BBC’s Moscow Correspondent when Vladimir Putin came to power, it all looks eerily familiar to what Russia went through in the 1990s. ‘Despots’ is Sixsmith’s exploration of two aspiring dictators who came to power in nominally electoral democracies, then dismantled the pillars of democracy from within.
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Ireland is Britain’s closest neighbour – the sea crossing from Scotland measures only 12 miles. It was also its first captive in what became Britain’s empire. The two nation’s stories have been intertwined since Anglo-Norman invaders crossed the Irish Sea during the 12th century. ‘These Troubled Isles’ tells the extraordinary history of the past century in this tumultuous relationship, from the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1922 to the present day. This is a tale of deep division between Catholic nationalism and Protestant unionism, of wars and terrorist violence, and of occasional moments of great courage on the part of British and Irish leaders.
